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NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (JTA)  At the beginning of the new documentary, “From Third Reich to Third Generation,” 21-year-old Christoph Erbsloeh, the grandson of a doctor in Hitler’s army, asks 101-year-old Holocaust survivor Arthur Lederman, “Do you think every German has a little Hitler in them?” Lederman’s response: “Yes, and I told you that,…

NEW YORK, Aug. 26 (JTA)  The funny pages are getting a little Yiddishkeit. Syndicated comic strip “Gil Thorp” soon is featuring a storyline about star athlete David Green, an Orthodox Jew who joins his high school football team. The strip, which has been published since 1959 and runs daily in more than 65 newspapers,…

NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (JTA)  Peter Bergson, who raised awareness in the United States of the Holocaust in the 1940s, has died at the age of 86. Bergson died Saturday at his home in a Tel Aviv suburb. Known in Israel as Hillel Kook, his birth and Hebrew name, Bergson was born in Lithuania…

Morty Schwartz and Esther Reed started dating a few months into graduate school. They fell in love, were engaged 10 months later, and got hitched less than a year after that. It’s a typical story with one detail that many might find unusual  they’re both

NEW YORK, July 3 (JTA)  A North Carolina community, already reeling from the news that a local Chasidic rabbi took part in an armed robbery a decade ago, is now dealing with the rabbi’s recent arrest for indecent exposure. Rabbi Pinchas Lew, 31, of Chapel Hill, was arrested on misdemeanor assault charges on May…

NEW YORK, July 5 (JTA)  For a couple of hours this week, Central Park was awash in Israeli blue and white. Bearing pro-Zionist signs and the Jewish state’s flags, an estimated 1,000 Jewish teen-agers gathered in Manhattan on Tuesday to show solidarity for Israel in the face of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian violence. The Young…

NEW YORK, Aug. 16 (JTA)  On the tenth anniversary of the race riots that rocked the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, about one-third of both Jews and blacks believe relations between the two groups have improved, a new survey found. Thirty-six percent of Jews and 32 percent of blacks polled in New York City…

NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (JTA)  At the beginning of the new documentary, “From Third Reich to Third Generation,” 21-year-old Christoph Erbsloeh, the grandson of a doctor in Hitler’s army, asks 101-year-old Holocaust survivor Arthur Lederman, “Do you think every German has a little Hitler in them?” Lederman’s response: “Yes, and I told you that,…

Morty Schwartz and Esther Reed started dating a few months into graduate school. They fell in love, were engaged 10 months later, and got hitched less than a year after that. It’s a typical story with one detail that many might find unusual  they’re both

NEW YORK, June 7 (JTA)  Nearly 50 percent of Austrians oppose their government’s decision to compensate Holocaust victims, according to a new poll. But there are also indications in the poll, commissioned by the American Jewish Committee, that an increasing number of Austrians are acknowledging their country’s role in the Holocaust. The survey describes…